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The Associated Press: 2 Soldiers Who Wrote Op-Ed Died in Iraq

The Associated Press: 2 Soldiers Who Wrote Op-Ed Died in Iraq
TEXAS CITY, Texas (AP) — Two sergeants who helped write a New York Times op-ed article sharply critical of the Pentagon’s assessment of the Iraq war were killed in a Baghdad crash this week, and one grieving mother wants the Army to explain their deaths.

“I want to know all the details of how he died. I want to know the truth,” said Olga Capetillo, whose 28-year-old son, Sgt. Omar Mora, died Monday along with six other soldiers and two detainees. “I don’t understand how so many people could die in that accident. How could it be so bad?”

Mora and co-author Sgt. Yance T. Gray, 26, of Ismay, Mont., died Monday when their truck veered off an elevated highway in western Baghdad and fell about 30 feet, the military said. The single-vehicle crash also wounded 11 other soldiers and a detainee.

The military made no mention of hostile fire. A call to an Army spokesman seeking comment Wednesday was not immediately returned.